1st July. The Duke of Newcastle notifies to the Duke of Cumberland the result of the meeting. 8th. New Ministers sworn in.--E. [155] William Dowdeswell, formerly a Tory. [156] Thomas, eldest son of Thomas Townshend, Teller of the Exchequer, and member for the University of Cambridge, and second son of Charles Viscount Townshend, Secretary of State. [157] Henry Arthur Herbert, Earl of Powis. He died in 1772. [158] George third Lord Edgcumbe, an admiral. [159] Richard Lumley Saunderson, Earl of Scarborough; he had married the sister of Sir George Saville. [160] Thomas, afterwards Lord Pelham. [161] Next brother to Daniel Earl of Winchelsea, father of the succeeding earl. [162] Thomas Viscount Gage, attached to the Duke of Newcastle, whom he afterwards abandoned as Lord Ashburnham did, to keep their places. [163] Sir Fletcher Norton. [164] Little is now known of Mr. Dowdeswell, beyond the high estimation in which he was held by the Whig party. His epitaph is by no means the happiest of Burke’s compositions; but amidst the cloud of panegyric the rays of truth exhibit a character of genuine English mould which it is very agreeable to contemplate. In a private letter, Burke says, “There never was a soul so remote as his from fraud, duplicity, or fear, so perfectly free from any of that rapacious unevenness of temper which embitters friendship and perplexes business. Of all the men I ever knew, he was the best to act with in public and to live with in private, from the manly decision and firmness of his judgment, and the extreme mildness and pleasantness of his temper.” His speeches, imperfectly as they are reported, prove him to have been a man of plain, sound, vigorous understanding, and not without respectable powers of debate. Burke exalts his knowledge of the revenue. He certainly was one of the leading members of the House, previous to his appointment, and the distinction conferred upon him was generally approved, Charles Townshend being forward to claim the merit of having suggested it. See the interesting Memoirs of Mr. Dowdeswell, in Cavendish’s Parliamentary Debates, i. 575.--E.